Digital Skills Workshops

Please click on the Book button to book a place on any of our up-coming Digital Skills Workshops.  If you have any questions, please just email the LDC and ask.

Getting the most of Microsoft 365 (online session)

You will be using your student Microsoft 365 account to access your emails, using Word most of all for your assignments (essays, reports, etc.), as well as OneDrive to store and access your files.  Knowing how to make the most of the software and tools available to you can save you time and effort and make it easier to manage your studies.

Wednesday 31st January 10am-11am

Dissertation formatting (campus drop-in session)

  Thursday 8th February 10am-12noon

Excel for basic data analysis and preparation for SPSS (on campus session)

Getting to know how to enter and manipulate data in Excel is a very useful skill that helps not just with getting to know your data, but also with a basic initial analysis. You will also be shown how to use Excel to prepare your data for further analysis with SPSS.

  Friday 16th February 10am-12noon

SPSS and importing data from Excel (on campus session)

This session will only cover the use of SPSS to do basic data manipulation and will not cover statistics or result interpretation.

  Monday  19th February 10am-12noon

Creating effective presentations with PowerPoint (on campus session)

When required to create a presentation, PowerPoint is by far the most popular and easy to use software for that. This session will show you how to plan and create well structured and visually attractive presentations that will also enable you to present with confidence. Using PowerPoint 365, you can also create a shared PowerPoint presentation that you can work on together on a group presentation. 

Friday 1st March 10am-12noon

Academic posters (on campus session)

You will be sent a link to a 30min video to watch in advance of the session and you will have an opportunity to ask questions and participate in a discussion. 

Tuesday 5th March 2pm-3:30pm